Brooklyn Spar Company By The Red Hook WaterStories Team
Dec 11, 2017 Atlantic schooner,brooklyn,brooklyn history,brooklyn spar company,columbia waterfront,portside new york,red hook,red hook history,red hook waterstories,waterstories
In 1921, the Brooklyn Spar Company advertised in The Marine Journal that it sold wooden masts and posts for derricks and flag poles, which the company made at its waterfront facility at the foot of Columbia Street. In O.R. Pilat’s 1929 article, John J. Murphy, a 40-year veteran of the Brooklyn spar business, said that during World War […]